The Morality of Homosexuality

March 19, 2009

By Anonymous

I figure that it would be good for me to discuss my opinions on homosexuality. This is something that I think about a whole lot because it is something I feel strongly about. I think that I have well developed opinions on the matter, but I generally have trouble putting my arguments and feeling into words. Hopefully, writing this and trying to organize what I think will be helpful for my own thoughts. The whole issue about the morality of homosexuality makes me very, very angry. I feel this way because as far as I'm concerned, there is no issue. There is absolutely nothing wrong with two consenting people of the same gender having sex, end of story. My morals are far from black and white'I don't dismiss lying and cheating as inherently wrong, and I still can't find a view on abortion that makes me feel entirely comfortable. However, my opinions on homosexuality are very strongly one-sided. There is simply no way homosexual relations can be justified as being wrong. This position cannot be supported by anything rational. Arguments against homosexuality can come only from a source that is entirely irrational. Religion is what makes people think homosexuality is wrong. In America, the great majority of people are Christian, and I myself know a lot about Christianity from my past experiences, so I'll just talk about the Christian view. I realize that there are people that believe that just the passive trait of being gay is a horrible sin, but these people are simply crazy, and any argument against that position is pretty unnecessary. Therefore, I will talk about the more common stance: It's okay to be gay because God makes people that way sometimes, but it's not okay for gay people to have sex, because that's a sin. It says it right there in the Bible, Leviticus 20:13: 'If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.' There are some logical problems with this idea. For example: why would God purposefully make people gay and then say they should be chaste? But the real problem lies in the way this quote is used to rationalize positions against homosexuality. To Christians, the Bible is the word of God, so, if it says that gay sex is bad in the Bible, then that's how it is. However, the Bible also says that children should be put to death for being disobedient (Deuteronomy 21:18-21), that working on the Sabbath is an offense punishable by death (Exodus 35:2), and of course that wearing clothes made of two types of material (Leviticus 19:19) or trimming your beard (Leviticus 19:27) is detestable. Nobody believes those other examples are the word of God, so why the one about homosexuality? There is nothing special about the passage on homosexuality. It is simply just another entry in a big list of 'no-nos', but it is regarded as truth while the others are dismissed as exaggerations or outdated laws. You can't pick and choose. How can someone decide what parts of the Bible are the words of God and which ones aren't? The bottom line is that you can't pick and choose you're your god thinks is right and wrong based on what you think. Those passages discredit the entire book, including the parts about homosexuality. The whole situation is a mess, and it makes me glad that I no longer believe in a god or are forced to reconcile religious beliefs with logic and sensible morality.

The only argument against homosexuality is the Bible. Once the Bible is made a void argument, there is nothing. I can't think of any way conventional morals can show gay sex to be wrong. The way I see it, what is right and wrong has little to do with the action itself and everything to do with the consequences. When two people have gay sex, nobody is hurt in any way. Even the Biblical passages give no reason as to why what they condemn is wrong, but people agree simply by default. I know from personal experience that it is easy to use the Bible as a substitute for a brain. I used to think homosexuality was wrong because of what my parents told me about my religious views. Then I started thinking and I realized how wrong I was. This is why I don't hold anything against people that have a moral problem with homosexuality and oppose gay rights. I have nothing but contempt for their opinions, but the opinions aren't really their own; they are those of old homophobes that lived thousands of years ago and wrote things that somehow managed to have an affect on the world in the present time. Religion catches people and sweeps them away into believing in identical values. When people are told what is irrefutably right and wrong at a young age, they have no reason to question what they see as the right answers. I have a feeling that if there was no religion and people had to come up with their own morals, very few would be against homosexuality, because I honestly cannot think of any situation in which critical thinking and logic could point to the immorality of the practice of homosexuality. Hopefully, people will come to realize this someday.

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I know many people who are openly gay in my christian church. Yes, christian. The one thing they tell us that hurts the most is when people who have not encountered what they have say that being gay is a lifestyle choice. One in particular told me, "If those who say such things have gone through the things gay people have, they would never choose being gay. I am gay and that's the way I am. God loves me for who I am."

I'm a christian, and I believe that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. While its not fair to judge harshly those who are homosexual, neither is it fair to say that all christians follow the word of the bible in its literal meaning. God loves each and everyone of us! It shouldn't matter what we look like or our orientation! WE are all people. I am a christian of an open and affirming faith, and I know that Religion and lifestyle can go along hand in hand. Prejudice leads to hate wi... (more »)

yeah that's true. people who only choose to believe and follow certain parts of a religion are not actually religious and are just using it as an excuse to be prejudiced. i don't have a problem with religion. until they use it to be unjust and immoral.

I truly believe that people have the right to oppose anything that they want to. Honestly, I am against it, but I don't discriminate, against it. I do consider myself a devout Christian. We all make decisions-wrong or right, but there is no sense in dissing the Bible because you believe that it is untrue. So, if you are a Christian, I don't understand why there would be any kind of objection to what it says. God did not make anyone gay. No one was born gay. I am not gay, I don't like the same se... (more »)

I'm sorry, I am all for all sorts of gay love, open or discreet. I don't neccesarily support gay marriage, but civil union or another simile of marriage is perfectly okay, if not welcomed, by me.

Saying this, I am a strong Christian and an open advocate for the Christian society to accept homosexuality. However, it really makes people like me stop and think when non-christian advocates call an entire religion crazy. Very frustrating indeed. Have you ever heard of "meeting half-way"? Be... (more »)

I agree. I'm in the GSA at my school, ad the running joke is that "Hey, it was Adam and Steve, not Adam and Eve." A lot of people get mad at us about that too, but if people are going to follow one part of the bible explicitly, what about the other parts? No divorce, an adulturer shall be stoned to death? When did that become okay but two consenting adults having sex is suddenly WRONG?

I lovee you for writing this passage. I am gay myself and still deal with the issues of it being right and wrong. I'm Christain myself and my parents scold homosexuality behavior . :) Gay marriage needs to be legallized soon

About how being gay is against christian beliefs, well christianity is all a bunch of mede up stories and lies, and the whole adam and eve thing (1 woman, 1 man) is total bullshit . You should be able to love whoever you want. I support gays.

I don't think anyone is born gay. I think it is a state of mind. If you grow up thinking that it's okay to like someone of your same sex, then you will explore that option. If you grow up thinking that it is wrong, then you will vehemently oppose it. Personally, I have nothing against gay people. They are people like anyone else. But I do beleive that gayness is wrong and immoral. But that's my point of veiw.

I agree with you completely and I am both Gay & Christian. Where did you find all this information though? Do you just look through the bible in your free time and just try to find the errors? All in all you did a wonderful job on this article. Good job, Seth31

I really like your article. It takes a great stance on the issue of homosexuality. I myself am also a christian and all for gay people. I dont have a problem with it. If someone loves someone what right do we have to say they cant be together. It's true that the bible is the only thing blocking the issue.